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Chapters 101104 111 Lectures Sept 11 16 Exam is Sept 18 Thursday Conventional requirements for habitability P lanet dif. Agenda. Definitions. Why designate space as Habitable Attic?. Requirements. Examples. Further help. 2. Habitable Attic Definition. IRC Definition:. ATTIC, HABITABLE. . A finished or unfinished area, . The milky way. (seen from Bryce Canyon, UT). The Solar System. ?. “A . system. is a set of . interacting. or interdependent. components . forming an integrated whole” (Wikipedia). The Solar System. To Be A Planet, Or Not To Be?. Physical Characteristics . 5 - Recognized Dwarf Planets. Ceres, Pluto, . Haumea. , . Makemake. , Eris. Classification Criteria. Directly orbits the Sun (not a satellite). V.Aravinthan. 2011/FM/034. WHO WE ARE?. WHAT IS LIFE?. The condition that . distinguishes. . animals and plants from inorganic matter. , including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death .. ASTR 1420. Lecture 8. Sections 10.1-10.4. Habitable Zone = Zone of liquid water. Goldilocks’ zone. This porridge is too hot…. This porridge is too cold…. Ahhh. , this porridge is . just right. !!. About the Resiliency of Habitable States? . An Example from the . Neoproterozoic. Snowball Earth. Linda E. Sohl. ,. 1,2. . Mark A. Chandler. ,. 1,2. . Jeffrey Jonas. ,. 1,2. . Alexander Pavlov. ,. The outer planets are called Jovian or Jupiter-like.. These planets are made of gas and are several times more massive than the Earth.. The Jovian planets grew to present size in about 10 million years.. : An instrument for identifying another Earth. David Charbonneau (Harvard). Jacob Bean (U. Chicago). Concept:. A radial velocity machine that is capable of detecting Earth- mass planets in the habitable zones of low-mass stars.. http://www.cs.wright.edu/~tkprasad. Prasad. 1. U3_SolarSystem. SOLAR SYSTEM. The Sun. Prasad. U3_SolarSystem. 3+ Dwarf Planets . Over 150 . moons . /. satellites of the . planets. Comets, meteors, asteroids,. Lecture by C.P. Dullemond. Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. Heidelberg University. Image . Credit. : NASA. The Big Questions. After C. Mordasini. > 10 billion galaxies in the Universe. 100 billion stars in each. Exam on Monday. I’ll have a Mock exam to work on Friday. Solar Eclipse. Freds_excellent_eclipse.mpg. Solar Eclipses . Umbra. – region of total shadow. Penumbra. – region of partial shadow. Totality lasts only a few minutes!. First things first…. Rotation. . – a circular movement of an object around a . center. (or . point. ) . of rotation; rotation around an axis. Sidereal Day – The time it takes for a planet to make one . ASTR 101. Prof. Dave Hanes. The . Moon. ’. s . Baleful Influence . (?. ). Crime . rates, . homicides, . birth rates, acts of. ‘. lunacy,. ’. t. raffic a. ccidents. , etc…. http. ://skepdic.com/fullmoon.html. By AJ, Aidan, Cheryl, and Emma. The Dwarf Planets. A dwarf planet is a smaller planet that shares an orbit around the sun such as an asteroid comets.. Scientists believe there may be as many as a few 100 other dwarf planets in the .